This is old but:
It’s the way Mark Latham keeps misremembering his boyhood that shows us what makes him dangerous. Take his recent speech to Labor's national conference.
"When I was young, my mum used to tell me there were two types of people in our street -- the slackers and the hard workers," he thundered.
In fact, his mum thought we were all either no-hopers or hard workers, as Latham explained in the draft of speech.
But then his shadow treasurer, Simon Crean, checked the draft, took out his red pencil and turned all those no-hopers into slackers -- presumably because he knew Labor delegates hate such judgmental language.
And that's what Latham ended reading out -- Crean's version of what Latham's mother said, and not the truth.
Hmmmm...
Posted by Quentin George at August 30, 2004 08:21 AM